Doug Lantry said he spent months trying to find the person stealing from his wife's grave. Police believe that person is Ileen Wallace, who was arrested on suspicion of theft and trespassing at Ridgewood Cemetery.

Lantry has placed flowers and other keepsakes at his wife's final resting place for months now.

"I buried my wife June 16," he said. "She had lung cancer."

The items at his wife's grave, however, would go missing just days later. After spotting a woman plucking flowers from another grave, Lantry had had enough.

"That's when I thought, 'I'll put up a trail camera and find out,'" he said.

What Lantry found by mounting a motion-sensing camera to a tree was that the same woman would show up at the same time those keepsakes would disappear.

A cemetery worker spotted the woman late Monday and caught the whole thing on camera before calling Lantry.

The two of them cornered Wallace in her car until the police arrived.

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A Council Bluffs man says he spent months trying to find the person who was stealing from his wife's grave.